If you are fitting a different Agnus to your Phoenix Board,

please observe the following :

This was originally located in the "ConfiguredPhoenixBoards" folder of
the CD which came with the Phoenix Board 2005. Version #2 onwards.

Look at the pictures in this folder's subfolders, particularly the ones

where I have added comments to the pictures, these are saved as "small"
when I cropped them from the original scans. They were then saved as
"setup" when I added the text comments.

If you are fitting an 8372B, 2Meg Agnus, also have a look at the
"8372B-2MegChipRAMMod" folder in the "PhoenixMods&Addons" folder as
well. This is a scan of the original Phoenix document and shows the
wires under the board. These are already fitted to the 2005 version of
the Phoenix Board but would have to be fitted if you are changing an
earlier version.

The previous documentation mentions various combinations of Agnus and

RAM chips. Not all of these will work, the 8372B Agnus was not
available when those documents were written so only best guesses could
be made. It is not clear that the U60E PAL chip must be removed if
using the 8372B but this is so and is shown in the table below. You
will have to set the various links on the Phoenixx Board to suit your
configuration. I have provided "setup" pictures as detailed above only
for the 2 versions marked with an asterisk "*" as these are what the
boards were tested to and shipped with.

Currently available configurations

Agnus ChipRAM SlowRAM U60E fitted Type of RAM used

Setup Pic?
8371 512K No 4off 256Kx4
512K 512K No 8off 256Kx4

8372A 512K No 4off 256Kx4

512K 512K No 8off 256Kx4
1Meg No 8off 256Kx4
1Meg 1Meg Yes 16off 256Kx4
*

8372B 2Meg No 4off 1Mx4

*

NOTE : THESE ARE THE ONLY SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS AT PRESENT!!!!

IF YOU USE OTHER CONFIGURATIONS YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!

Future configurations, which may be possible.

Agnus ChipRAM SlowRAM U60 fitted Type of RAM used

8372B 2Meg U60F 16off 256Kx4
2Meg 6Meg U60G 16off 1Mx4

8375 2Meg U60H 16off 256Kx4

2Meg U60J 4off 1Mx4
2Meg 6Meg U60K 16off 1Mx4
The PALs versioned U60F through to U60K do not exist yet and are
subject to being electronically possible, and the time being available!

1. By using similar methodology to the A3000 boards, it should be

possible, in a PAL, to generate the extra control lines needed to use
the 256Kx4s with the 8372B. This will be the basis of the proposed
U60F PAL.
2. Using similar techniques to that of the U60E PAL it should be
possible to create the U60G and have a total of 8Meg in the main board,
2Meg Chip and 6Meg Slow.
3. Once I am able to obtain supplies of the 8375 Agnus it will be
possible to work out how to use this version. The 8375 is pinned out
to work with the newer 256Kx16 DRAMs and its pins need to be split-up
to handle the older chips.
4. In describing the position of the links, the following wording is
used :
IN means the 2 pin link is connected by the shorting clip.
OUT means the 2,3 or 4 pin link is not connected.
LEFT means the left side of a 3 or 4 pin link block is connected.
RIGHT means the right side of a 3 or 4 pin link block is
connected.
5. SlowRAM is RAM that is on the GraphicRAM bus but is not Chip or
Graphics RAM, under normal use it is not slower than FastRAM but under
certain cycle stealing graphics modes will be slower than FastRAM.
A500 internal expansion RAM is like this also.